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Career 04/09/2020

Edmond de Rothschild REIM hires Jonny Newell for business development team

Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) has appointed Jonny Newell as managing director, business development. Reporting to Rodney Bysh, head of business (...)

Office 03/09/2020

Primonial REIM buys 21,500 sqm in Meudon's M Campus office complex

Primonial REIM announces that it has finalised the acquisition, from one of PGIM Real Estate's pan-European discretionary value-added funds, of four office buildings - (...)

Career 03/09/2020

Patrizia appoints new asset management director for France

German listed investment manager Patrizia has promoted Vivian Bouquery to the new position of Head of Asset Management in France. Under the leadership of (...)

Finance 03/09/2020

Perial in the process of selling its property management subsidiary

The Perial group and Esset Property Management, a subsidiary of the Foncia group, have confirmed being in discussions for Esset to acquire Perial's subsidiary, (...)

Territories 03/09/2020

New French mayors, Nicolas Sarkozy, Covid-19... Mipim is turning into a political and economic meeting place

In the absence of a Cannes edition this year —that was postponed and then cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic— Mipim will relocate to (...)

Career 03/09/2020

Marc Bertrand leaves La Française to join Amundi, Philippe Depoux to replace him

This autumn, France’s real estate job market is picking up again. As recently announced on Business Immo, Jean-Marc Coly (62) will soon be retiring (...)

Logistics 02/09/2020

Covid-19 impact to speed up European online retail sales by one year - Savills

Prior to Covid-19, the Western European average online retail sales penetration was forecast to reach 15.3% by 2022. However, the Centre for Retail Research’s (...)

Finance 02/09/2020

European investors keep faith with forward transactions - RCA

Investors stuck to the forward transactions route to acquire European office properties in the second quarter of 2020, according to data from Real Capital (...)

Career 02/09/2020

Mathieu Echeverria joins Galimmo as Head of Leasing & Specialty Leasing

Galimmo Real Estate, a real estate company specialized in retail real estate and in the development of shopping centers in Europe, has announced the (...)

Career 02/09/2020

Vastned CEO steps down for new phase

The Supervisory Board of Vastned, the listed European retail property has announced that it has reached the conclusion, jointly with CEO Taco de Groot, (...)

Office 01/09/2020

Primonial REIM buys Saint-Ouen's 8,000 sqm Cinetika office building off-plan

Paris-based investment manager Primonial REIM has acquired off-plan the Cinetika office building, located in the Paris suburb of Saint-Ouen, on behalf of one of its funds. (...)

Hospitality 01/09/2020

European hotel transaction activity dominated by regional players in H1 2020 – C&W

New European hotel transaction data from Cushman & Wakefield reveals that the first half of 2020 saw a marked increase in investors retreating to (...)

Retail 01/09/2020

French property investments' performance remains very slightly positive in H1 2020 - ViewS+S Consulting

How have property investments performed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis? ViewS+S Consulting, created by Philippe Le Trung, has analysed the half-yearly results (...)

Finance 01/09/2020

When real estate provides after-career support for athletes

With their short careers, rarely exceeding ten years, and their variable income, top-level athletes sometimes encounter very unpleasant surprises at the end of the (...)

Career 01/09/2020

Hines expands its capital markets team in EMEA

Hines, the international real estate firm, has made a series of senior appointments to its European and Middle Eastern Capital Markets team as it (...)

Office 01/09/2020

German Commodus buys a 700 sqm office building in Paris Montmartre

Germany based Commodus, a private equity investor specializing in office buildings, has acquired through an asset disposal a fully leased office building in the (...)

Career 31/08/2020

Sami Mendil joins CBRE's Hotels departmen as Head of Investment Hotels

CBRE continues to strengthen its Hotels department with the appointment of Sami Mendil as Head of Investment Hotels France & Belux. He will report (...)

Finance 31/08/2020

Auchan Retail's results improve, but Ceetrus' performance plummets

Driven by the significant improvement in Auchan Retail’s performance, Auchan Holding recorded a normalised net profit up €228m in the first half of 2020. (...)

Career 31/08/2020

Stéphane Pesic leaves Arnault-LVMH's real estate business

Stéphane Pesic is leaving his current position as Head of Real Estate Investment & Acquisition at Groupe Arnault-LVMH. He spent there 13 years, also (...)

Career 31/08/2020

Brian Klinksiek to Join LaSalle as Head of European Research and Global Portfolio Strategies

LaSalle Investment Management has announced that Brian Klinksiek will join LaSalle as Head of European Research and Global Portfolio Strategies, effective 15 September 2020. (...)